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Iro Kougioumtzi

Iro Kougioumtzi

Cambridge,United Kingdom

Summary

Highly motivated and enthusiastic professional with advanced communication and problem-solving skills. Demonstrates a strong ability to co-ordinate multiple tasks and manage projects efficiently. Known for being highly organised, with excellent attention to detail and analytical skills. Possesses a friendly, approachable, and outgoing personality, making a great team player. Career goals include leveraging technical information assimilation abilities in a customer-focused environment to drive success.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Implementation Manager

Worldpay
Cambridge, United Kingdom
01.2022 - 01.2025
  • Company Overview: Worldpay is global leader in payment processing technology and solutions
  • [Website: https://www.worldpay.com]
  • Biggest achievement- Reduce Go to live time from 3 months to 14 days average time
  • Facilitates weekly status meetings working through issue management and resolution
  • Performs all set-up parameters to enable production environment
  • Sets up security and product parameters, third party integration requirements
  • Manages technical activities
  • Facilitates technical questionnaire, manages challenges and issues
  • Facilitates technical call, supporting product
  • Tests all authoring modification, including third-party integration
  • Ensures all database distribution is facilitated and validated with every activity during implementation conversion process
  • Facilitates and manages project milestones
  • Product definition, gathers business requirements and translates to configuration development and scope
  • Application acceptance, validate, modify and test configuration work and business workflow requirements
  • Provides implementation-conversion support – develops and manages master conversion plan for implementation from readiness to full production environment

Implementation Consultant

Worldpay by FIS
08.2021 - 01.2025
  • Boarded first customer that utilised company's newest Fraud sight tool
  • Participated in projects to onboard customers, creating scoping documents
  • Monitoring of new implementation requests raised by business and perform scoping conversations to improve quality of detail whilst collaborating with commercial colleagues
  • Provided supportive role to wider team by assisting Implementation Managers with administrative and account setup tasks
  • Created knowledge articles, best practice guides and templates to help customers go-live faster and minimizing delays and errors during implementation

Gateway Technical Support Consultant

Worldpay by FIS
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
10.2019 - 01.2025
  • Managed over 50 customer calls per day
  • Provided expert technical advice and support to Gateway E-commerce customers
  • Responded to customer queries by telephone and email promptly and accurately
  • Performed regulatory controls and audit requirements needed to comply with Worldpay, FCA, PCI and legal policies and standards
  • Provided pre-sales support to customers
  • Up to date with technical trends within payment processing industry such as security, web/browser technologies, mobile technologies

Sanctions Screening Due Diligence Advisor

Worldpay by FIS
06.2019 - 01.2025
  • Accomplished to reverify more than 700 customers via Remediation Project
  • Conducted sanction/PEP screening and investigate potential hits
  • Supported data-protection compliance
  • Completed Compliance administration (record training, keeping client record up to date) as required
  • Reviewed effectiveness of current monitoring rules and settings and provide feedback on ways to optimise
  • Continuously reviewed current processes and suggest improvements to process as well as systems used
  • Worked cross-departmental to proactively identify and resolve operational compliance queries
  • Undertook assigned Compliance project work
  • Identification and reporting of suspicious activity to relevant global financial intelligence units

AML Analyst

Worldpay
11.2018 - 01.2025
  • Ensured that customer and every beneficial owner was identified and appropriately verified
  • Completed CDD assessment
  • Provided expertise, knowledge and ensure that customers have smooth boarding experience
  • On boarded new customers by doing screening against sanctions lists and CDD procedures
  • Updated CRM on daily basis with CDD and customer activity
  • Undertook internal and external investigation via third parties when information is not readily available in line with standard operating procedures

Accommodation Service Executive II

Booking.com
Cambridge, UK
03.2016 - 11.2018
  • Company Overview: Booking.com is travel fare aggregator website and travel metasearch engine for lodging reservations
  • [Website: https://www.booking.com]
  • Promoted to Executive II Level
  • First point of contact for Booking.com BV’s accommodation partners calling partner support line, answering questions and queries, and taking action as needed
  • Responsible for delivering high level of service to Booking.com BV’s partners in order to support building productive and continuing relationships
  • Managing accommodation partner’s contacts with high attention to detail and accuracy
  • Advising accommodation partners of their webpages on Booking.com and how can amend their data with respect to supply, availability, specials, promotions
  • Proactively contacting new accommodations to encourage completion of their online registration and offering support through process
  • Answering questions of potential partners and support Booking.com BV with setting expectations for partnership
  • Verifying accuracy of information provided by partner on website and proactively seeking content to ensure success of partner’s page on Booking.com
  • Delivering training by phone to new and or existing properties on how to use Booking.com extranet and rates & availability system
  • Customer Satisfaction ratio above average
  • Hit all targets and overachieved bonus quotas

Accommodation Service Executive I

Booking.com
Cambridge, UK
04.2015 - 02.2016
  • First point of contact for Booking.com BV’s accommodation partners calling partner support line, answering questions and queries, and taking action as needed
  • Responsible for providing support to accommodation partners by telephone, messaging system and email
  • Responsible for delivering high level of service Booking.com BV’s partners in order to support building productive and continuing relationships
  • Managing accommodation partner’s contacts with high attention to detail and accuracy
  • Advising accommodation partners of their webpages on Booking.com and how can amend data with respect to supply, availability, specials, promotions
  • Providing support to Booking.com’s accommodation partners with managing Booking.com extranet and maintaining property information on Booking.com website
  • Further enhanced communication and customer service skills and attended various trainings and workshops on effective communication, problem solving and partner management

Personal Assistant

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain
10.2013 - 02.2015

Company Overview: Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain is a religious organization serving Greek Orthodox community

  • First point of contact on behalf of the Archbishop
  • Responsible for day to day administrative operations
  • Preparation of public related documents and certificates
  • Organising agenda, schedule, appointments, holding and chairing meetings when required
  • Devised various performance reports and updates
  • Responsible for expansion of school program in Great Britain, liaised with key stakeholders

Administration Assistant

Insurance Brokers Kavala Greece
04.2013 - 09.2013
  • Responsible for the day to day office operations
  • Data entry on two different databases: EDDIE insurance system & Bluebyte
  • First point of contact via telephone & email

Education

Certificate of Higher Education - Project Management

Association for Project Management
United Kingdom
09.2023 - 06.2024

Master of Science - Digital Libraries

City University of London
United Kingdom
09.2014 - 09.2017

Bachelor of Science - Information Management

University of East Macedonia And Thrace
01.2009 - 01.2013

Skills

  • People skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Ability to co-ordinate multiple tasks
  • Project management
  • Highly organised
  • Ability to assimilate technical information
  • Highly motivated
  • Team player

Languages

Greek
Proficient (C2)
English
Proficient (C2)

Personal Information

  • Date of birth: 07/11/90
  • Nationality: Greek

Custom

Numerous training sessions & seminars on customer services, communication skills, commercial conversations

Timeline

Certificate of Higher Education - Project Management

Association for Project Management
09.2023 - 06.2024

Implementation Manager

Worldpay
01.2022 - 01.2025

Implementation Consultant

Worldpay by FIS
08.2021 - 01.2025

Gateway Technical Support Consultant

Worldpay by FIS
10.2019 - 01.2025

Sanctions Screening Due Diligence Advisor

Worldpay by FIS
06.2019 - 01.2025

AML Analyst

Worldpay
11.2018 - 01.2025

Accommodation Service Executive II

Booking.com
03.2016 - 11.2018

Accommodation Service Executive I

Booking.com
04.2015 - 02.2016

Master of Science - Digital Libraries

City University of London
09.2014 - 09.2017

Personal Assistant

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain
10.2013 - 02.2015

Administration Assistant

Insurance Brokers Kavala Greece
04.2013 - 09.2013

Bachelor of Science - Information Management

University of East Macedonia And Thrace
01.2009 - 01.2013
Iro Kougioumtzi